Soon, Bob Thiele was adding some of the biggest names in jazz to Impulse!’s roster. He had two very different roles, A&R and production. With Bob Thiele now in charge of Impulse!, he began to expand the label. It was recently released by Decca and celebrates the first thirteen years of the Impulse! story. Similarly, a variety of sub-genres of jazz are represented on the Impulse 1961-1974 box set. There’s everything from big bands to trios, quartets and soloists. It features twenty-five CDs including Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, Charles Mingus, McCoy Tyner, Chico Hamilton Quintet, Earl Hines, Keith Jarrett, John Coltrane Quartet, Shelly Manne, Charlie Haden and Tom Scott. This includes many that feature in the Impulse 1961-1974 box set. During that period, he produced many groundbreaking jazz albums. He would play a huge role in the rise and rise of Impulse! Bob Thiele ran Impulse! between 19. Replacing Creed Taylor was the man who would be synonymous with Impulse!, Bob Thiele. He had been approached to run Verve Records. The decision to appoint Creed Taylor as Impulse!’s A&R man had paid off.ĭespite the success of Ray Charles’ His Genius + Soul = Jazz Creed Taylor decided to leave Impulse! in the summer of 1961. A month later, in March 1961, Ray Charles released His Genius + Soul = Jazz was released in March 1961, and gave the label it’s first successful album. It sported Impulse!’s distinctive black, orange, and white livery. He released his post bop album The Blues and the Abstract Truth in February 1961. Another of Impulse!’s early signings was Oliver Nelson. One of the earliest signings made by Creed Taylor was Ray Charles. This they decided to call Impulse! Arranger and producer Creed Taylor was hired and became the nascent label’s A&R manager. So in 1960, Am-Par Record Corporation decided to form their own jazz label. One genre they were particularly interested in, was jazz. Soon, the label was looking at expanding. New artists joined their roster, as success began to come the Am-Par Record Corporation’s way. Over the next five years, the Am-Par Record Corporation continued to expand. Some of the singles and albums proved popular and indeed profitable for the new label.
These were then distributed nationwide by Am-Par Record Corporation. Soon, the nascent label was producing and releasing records, licensing masters from independent record producers and purchasing records that had been regionally. He oversaw the birth of what would become one of the biggest record companies in America. Clark became the Am-Par Record Corporation’s first president. So on June 14th 1955 as Am-Par Record Corporation was incorporated. In 1955, the American Broadcasting Company decided the time was right to diversify into the record business.
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